Another long road trip with an early start at 0345 🙈 Dani Johnston and her amazing mare Tina IV and Koning Albert travelled down to Norfolk to have another crack at the 1m35 Grade C HOYS Qualifier. Tina had an early draw and got a lovely clear, which was one of only 6 in a field of nearly 30. Berti had a good draw near the ...

Koning Albert and Ellie were invited to perform with Gaynor's Dancing Horses Team at Arena UK last week and certainly turned some heads. Lots of lovely photos and videos taken by Jill, Daisy and George Parish photography at the event. Berti looked stunning in his brand new Devoucoux dressage saddle, fitted earlier that day by La...

A longish road trip down to the Hertfordshire County Show for Koning Albert and Tina IV with Daniella Johnston, Daisy Williams and Jill for our first attempt at the Grade C HOYS Qualifier, which is 1m35 in the first round 🦘🦘 An "Interesting" course, which caught many out, with 16 going into the second round. Both horses jumped a...

Koning Albert completed his Advanced Medium Silver Area Festival qualification in his first two attempts at this level.  Ellie Roberts and her mother Jo, kindly took Berti to Manor Grange EC whilst Dave worked hard at home and Jill worked on the ambulances for the day. On a rather hot day, Berti gave 2 sterling performances in the Medium ...

𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓾𝓵𝓽 𝓚𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓐𝓵𝓫𝓮𝓻𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓔𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓭🏆🙌🏻🥇 Berti's first attempt at Advanced Medium Freestyle and the result was better than we could have hoped for. This was also Berti's first competition in his gorgeous bespoke EvoEquine double bridle and wearing his new Saddlecloth and ears from HH Unique with both companies kindly supporting ...

𝓑𝓮𝓻𝓽𝓲 𝓲𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻🙌 Despite hot weather being the enemy of black horses, Berti tried super hard for Dani today in the 1m30 Open class at Willow Banks EC. He was more settled today and listening to Dani, who, despite Berti's opinion, knows what she's doing and he sometimes needs a reminder to accept that with grace 🙈 A...

A quick trip down the road to Willow Banks EC for Koning Albert to have a run round the 1.25 with the open water as an option Berti enjoyed the run out and went clear despite him backing off the Open water and needing a little reminder of what he is supposed to do 🙈 Bonus to find they took the class and the £100 prize pot ☺️ Thank yo...

Well, what a rush! As Koning Albert was off games over winter, it has been a bit of a rush to get him fit enough and jump ready to get his remaining 3 double clears so he can go through to the Second rounds. We were also nearly out of points too, so Dani had to ride extra carefully so as not to take the top places...

Berti's dressage has been coming along in leaps and bounds, and he's entering for some Advanced Medium Music's soon and is training at PSG, which is unbelievable. He learns so quickly and tries his hardest, but he really loves his jumping. He had been off games over the winter and it's been a challenge trying to get all his Foxhunter double cl...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀🙌 Starting off at Sheepgate Equestrian on Saturday with Ellie Roberts in the pilot's seat. Berti contested his two hardest tests so far, the new Medium's 4 and 5. Showing quite a bit of tension in both tests, he still gained 68.13% in the M4 and 63.83% in the M5 with an expensiv...

A little run down to our friendly local show centre at Willow Banks EC, saw Ellie Roberts and Berti gain the last points needed for competing at the Regionals at Elementary. He was a little tense in places in the tests and Ellie felt he could have been better but he gained 67.83% and 68.28% in Ele 4 and 5, winning both classes. She leaped...

Koning Albert had a fabulous time back out doing a nice round at Willow Banks Equestrian Centre on a gorgeous sunny Saturday. His first outing since he was injured 6 months ago and he was keen to show he'd forgotten nothing. A lovely steady double clear and Berti was very relaxed and enjoying being back out. I had lots of lovely comments from peopl...

Ellie Roberts and Koning Albert performed 2 lovely tests at Hill House EC today, gaining lots of Qualifying points for the Regionals at this level. The warm up wasn't without drama, when Berti, (who was wearing "ears" for the first time, only to save his forelock) shook his head and removed the whole bridle. He just stood there, enjoying the n...

Ellie Roberts, Jill and Koning Albert, travelled down to the Stallion Show held again at Addington Manor Equestrian Centre in Buckinghamshire in February.  We set up the night before and Berti settled well. We set out the table in the morning, Ellie plaited Berti up and got ready for our display just after lunch. We met lots of lovely peo...

What a little dressage star Berti is!!Ellie and Berti competed in the Winter Regionals at Arena UK today in the Elementary Freestyle to Music class. I may be biased but I just love this music, and Berti was on great form not putting a foot wrong. Ellie devised a great floor plan and with the accompanying music selected by Jill and edited ...

Well, there's nothing like going in big!Berti and Ellie Roberts competed in their first ever Medium tests at the weekend and he held his own against some very smart combinations! In the Medium 4 test, Berti made some schoolboy errors in a couple of places which both judges picked up, but they still gained a respectable mark of 65.63% and ...

We are very excited to announce that we will be attending the 2025 Annual Stallion Show held at Addington Manor EC on Saturday 8th February 2025 Gate will open at 9.30am This year they will be starting with the Dressage Stallions at 11am followed by a long break where the stables opening to the public. The stables will then...

We are so pleased with the new stud cards and posters, meticulously and skilfully designed by our lovely friend Anton Fowler at Bubble 🎉 Available on our Stud page or here as pdf's to view or download, you can find lots of information on Koning Albert. If you would like a hard copy please drop me a message here Also some exciting new...

👻 👻 𝕾𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖙𝖆𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖆𝖗 𝕺𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖗👻 👻 Koning Sport Horses are offering a discounted Stud Fee to Koning Albert in 2025 😮 All you have to do: 👻Complete a Nomination form to Koning Albert for 2025 👻by Saturday 30th November, 2024 👻pay a deposit of £100 👽👽 Receive an "Early Bird Reduction" of £100 https://koningsh.co.uk/stud

Great result for Koning Albert and Action Annie who are both off to HOYS. A 5am start saw us heading up north to the Wolsingham Show for the HOYS Grade C Qualifier which is a 2 round class starting at 1m35 and the jump off at 1m40. Sponsored by John Chadwick Equestrian we had a bit of a laugh in the prizegiving together😆 Daniella Johnston rode her ...